Question about hitting 50k views on my repair video - was that normal?

Honestly, last week my DIY video on fixing a leaky toilet flapper hit 50k views on YouTube, and I’m still shocked. I just filmed it with my phone in my basement with zero editing, and it’s way more than my other stuff. I don’t even have a big channel, like 200 subs. Is that a fluke or did I just catch the right search terms? Has anyone else had a random video blow up like that and figure out why?

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ellis.robert4mo ago

You got lucky with search traffic, plain and simple.

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andrewh434mo ago

Three months of flat traffic before that one article hit. What specifically did you change that made Google finally pick it up? I keep hearing it's just luck but there's usually a trigger point. Was it a backlink or something in the content structure?

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